Changeset d33eabc

Timestamp:

01/23/2006 11:29:05 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Randy McMurchy <randy@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

adb388a

Parents:

3a4bc84

Message:

Added some additional corrections to the Firefox instructions

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@5587 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml

@@ -62 +62 @@
     <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
       <listitem>
-        <para>Required patch (if using the system-installed versions of
+        <para>Required patch (if using system-installed versions of
         <application>NSS</application> and <application>NSPR</application>):
         <ulink
@@ -115 +115 @@
     is created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options
     (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue
-    <command>./configure --help</command>.  If you are going to use the
-    system-installed versions of <application>NSS</application> and
-    <application>NSPR</application>, ensure you uncomment the two lines near
-    the bottom of the file. If you are going to build the
+    <command>./configure --help</command>.  If you are going to use
+    system-installed versions of the <application>NSS</application> and
+    <application>NSPR</application> libraries, ensure you uncomment the two
+    lines near the bottom of the file. If you are going to build the
     <application>OpenOffice</application> package and you want to use this
     <application>Firefox</application> installation as the default
@@ -313 +313 @@
     interface header file.</para>
 
+    <para><command>make -f client.mk ...</command>: Mozilla products are
+    packaged to allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to
+    pass the configuration settings to the <command>configure</command>
+    command. <command>make</command> uses the <filename>client.mk</filename>
+    file to get initial configuration and setup parameters, then depending on
+    the target parameter (<parameter>build</parameter> or
+    <parameter>install</parameter>), either runs the
+    <command>configure</command> script and compiles the package or installs
+    the package.</para>
+
     <para><command>install -v -m755 -d .../chrome/icons/default</command> and
     <command>ln -v -s ../../../icons/default.xpm ...</command>: These two